Flourishing conversations between professionals in the public sphere are creating new opportunities for intercollegiate debate. This desire to expand debate outside of the Communication Studies community pushes the idea of debate beyond its traditional boundaries. Those who have witnessed these attempts to bring more disciplines into the world of debate have found that incorporating debate into the classroom, enhances the learning experience of the students while simultaneously aiding them to become better advocates for themselves and others. Over the course of the 2018- 2019 academic school year, the author helped professors from multiple disciplines with the challenge of incorporating debate into their classrooms through the James Madison University Communication Center. In this essay, the goal is to promote the intersection of debate and communication centers as a way to enhance the development of oral communication competency skills for students in the classroom.